How Common is the Flesh Eating Disease?
How common is the flesh-eating disease? It’s actually very rare (only about 9,000-11,500 cases in the U.S. are reported each year according to the Center for Disease Control) but the disease appears to be becoming more common than in the past. Dr. Alan Bisno, a retired University of Miami expert who has lectured other doctors on this, told the Associated Press: “In the first 20 years I practiced, I may have seen one case. Within a very few years, everybody in the audience had all seen cases.” The increasing number of flesh-eating bacteria infections could be traced to the drug-resistance developed by some superbugs. From the AP: It used to be caused almost exclusively by one type of strep bacteria. Now there’s a scary trend: drug-resistant superbugs like the staph germ MRSA increasingly are able to make “flesh-eating” toxins and cause nightmarish infections… As we mentioned in prior posts, anyone – from superstars like Michael Jackson, to Nobel prize winners like Eric Cornell to ordina
